What is the real scheme in the "FBI's investigation on Hillary Clinton's new Emails"?

Thursday, November 03, 2016

President Obama greeted supporters after speaking on behalf of Hillary Clinton to a crowd of about 16,000 people in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Wednesday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times

VietPress USA (Nov. 3rs, 2016): Please read this topic from The New York Times to know clearly what is the scheme in the probe of Hillary Clinton's new Emails that Director of FBI James Comey just declared 11 days before the Election Day. President Barack Obama criisized this is the fault of FBI Director for violating the FBI investigative guidelnes.

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Obama Faults F.B.I. on Emails, Citing ‘Incomplete
Information’

By JONATHAN MARTIN, ADAM GOLDMAN and GARDINER HARRISNOV. 2,
2016

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — President Obama threw the power of the
White House behind Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. He faulted how the F.B.I.
director, James B. Comey, handled new emails related to the investigation into
Mrs. Clinton’s private server, and then shouted out to college students here in
a pivotal battleground state that it was crucial that they vote because the
“fate of the world is teetering.”

Mr. Obama’s comments about Mr. Comey, broadcast early in the
day as recent polls showed a tightening race, were striking for a president who
has insisted he does not comment on F.B.I. investigations. But Mr. Obama
appeared to be doing exactly that in implicitly criticizing Mr. Comey’s
decision to send a vague letter last week to Congress — and by extension, the
public — informing lawmakers about a discovery of new emails related to Mrs.
Clinton’s use of a private server as secretary of state.

“We don’t operate on incomplete information,” Mr. Obama said
in an interview with NowThis News. “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based
on concrete decisions that are made.”

Without mentioning Mr. Comey by name — although it was clear
whom he meant — Mr. Obama suggested that the F.B.I. had violated investigative
guidelines and trafficked in innuendo by alerting Congress last week. Mr.
Obama’s remarks, which followed searing criticism of the F.B.I. director from
both parties, make it harder for Mr. Comey to defuse the worst crisis of his
tenure at the bureau.

The president’s stop later in the day in this liberal
college community was aimed at galvanizing two pillars of his political
coalition, African-Americans and young voters, who Democrats say are not
turning out to vote in the same numbers as they once did for Mr. Obama. If
Donald J. Trump loses here and in Florida, where Mr. Obama was heading on
Thursday, he has virtually no path to the White House.

“You, North Carolina, are going to have to make
sure that we push it in the right direction,” Mr. Obama exhorted about 16,000
cheering supporters at the University of North Carolina. It was Mr. Obama’s
second stop on a weeklong swing through four pivotal states and demonstrated a
new level of urgency among Democrats about the race as well as the personal
stakes for Mr. Obama, who wants Mrs. Clinton to carry on his agenda.

After saying for a second time that “the fate of
the republic” rested on their shoulders, Mr. Obama made sure to add he was not
joking. His language, here and in the interview, reflected how determined he
was to defeat Mr. Trump and betrayed how nervous some in his own party have
become over Mrs. Clinton’s prospects.

The president also lashed out at Republicans for
vowing to create gridlock in Washington if Mrs. Clinton is elected, saying that
“you’ve got some Republicans in Congress who are already suggesting they will
impeach Hillary. She hasn’t even been elected yet.”

In Washington, Mr. Obama’s criticism of Mr. Comey
was only the latest blow to the F.B.I., where the mood is grim as agents continue
to review emails belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton. The
emails were discovered in an unrelated investigation into her estranged
husband, Anthony D. Weiner, a former congressman from New York. The F.B.I. is
investigating whether Mr. Weiner sent illicit text messages to a teenage girl
in North Carolina and seized his laptop in early October.

The F.B.I. concluded the case into Mrs. Clinton’s
private server in July with no charges, but Mr. Comey’s letter to Congress has
renewed an inquiry that Mrs. Clinton thought was behind her.

For Mr. Comey, the short time left before the
election now offers no easy options. If, over the next few days, agents find no
evidence to change their July conclusion in the emails of Ms. Abedin that they
are able to review — law enforcement officials say the F.B.I. likely will not
be able to complete the inquiry by Tuesday — publicly saying so would open the
F.B.I to criticism that it was prejudging an open investigation.

If agents do find potentially damaging evidence,
publicly saying so would taint Ms. Abedin — and by extension Mrs. Clinton —
before the investigation is complete. Either move would amount to a change in
practice for the F.B.I., which typically says only what it believes it can
prove, and only in court

“The risk of harm is greater if he comes out
without all the facts,” Chris Voss, a former F.B.I. agent, said of Mr. Comey.

Saying nothing, however, allows suspicion to hang
over Mrs. Clinton’s campaign in the final days of the race. Mr. Trump has
already capitalized on the F.B.I. review at his rallies, calling it evidence of
what he calls Mrs. Clinton’s corrupt and criminal behavior.

Mr. Comey’s letter has also put Mr. Obama into a
delicate position at a crucial time in the race, essentially forcing him to
choose between his own institutional imperative to refrain from meddling in a
federal law enforcement matter and his political impulse to fiercely defend
Mrs. Clinton.

White House officials later played down Mr. Obama’s
remarks about the F.B.I. and insisted he had not meant to criticize Mr. Comey.

“The president went out of his way to say he
wouldn’t comment on any particular investigations,” Eric Schultz, a White House
spokesman, told reporters on Air
Force One while Mr. Obama was en route to North Carolina.

Hillary Clinton with members of her staff aboard her campaign plane en route to Las Vegas on Wednesday. President Obama lauded Mrs. Clinton in Chapel Hill. (CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times)

Mr. Schultz characterized Mr. Obama’s remarks as
mirroring those made in recent days by the White House press secretary, Josh
Earnest, who had said that while the White House would not criticize Mr.
Comey’s decision to update Congress on the status of a continuing
investigation, Mr. Obama believed that rules intended to keep such investigations
confidential were good ones and should be followed.

Much is unknown about the newly discovered emails,
including why they were on Mr. Weiner’s laptop in the first place. Ms. Abedin,
through her lawyers, has adamantly denied using that laptop. One theory of how
the emails ended up there, according to several of the people, is that they may
have been inadvertently backed up or downloaded onto an older computer and then
transferred from the older computer to the laptop’s hard drive when the older computer
was replaced.

Mr. Obama, affecting a bit of the local accent,
repeatedly said he had come to do “bidness,” name-dropped the Tar Heels
basketball team, and could barely contain his laughter as he described some of
Mr. Trump’s more provocative remarks.

But he also directed the millennials in the
audience to pay attention as he described the ugly history of the struggle for
black voting rights and North Carolina’s more recent effort to make it harder
to cast a ballot. Alluding to a 100-year-old black woman and lifelong resident
of the state whose voting eligibility was recently questioned, Mr. Obama said
North Carolinians would be complicit in what he called “voter suppression” if
they did not show up at the polls.

“If you don’t vote you’ve done the work of those
who would suppress your vote without them having to lift a finger,” the
president warned. He referred to Mr. Trump’s repeated allegations of voting
fraud in “certain areas,” making it clear that he thinks the Republican was
talking about black communities. “Where are those ‘certain areas’ he’s talking
about?” Mr. Obama asked with a knowing tone.

Hoping to energize progressives in a town so
liberal the late firebrand Senator Jesse Helms said the state could put up a
wall around it and deem it a zoo, Mr. Obama left little doubt about how
important North Carolina was to Mrs. Clinton. “If Hillary wins North Carolina,”
he said, “she wins.”

In North Carolina, which Mr. Obama narrowly lost in
2012, early voting rates among African-Americans and young voters have so far
been below the level of four years ago. Democrats have seen improvements in
these numbers in recent days as more early voting locations have opened up and
they were able to drive out African-American voters at “souls to the polls”
events last weekend.

On Thursday, Mr. Obama is to campaign in Miami and
Jacksonville, two of Florida’s most heavily African-American cities. He is
scheduled to return to North Carolina on Friday, when he will appear in
Charlotte and Fayetteville, both with sizable black populations, before going
back to Orlando on Saturday for the final day of early voting in Florida.